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D4.6 – 1st Annual report, including feedback and lesson learnt, from Europe-Africa Agora Grant Agreement nº 817663
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LEAP4FNSSA Project
Deliverable N.: D4.6
Title: 1st Annual report, including feedback and lesson learnt, from Europe-Africa Agora
Funding scheme: Coordination and support action
Project Acronym: LEAP4NSSA Project Full Title: Support to the implementation of the Long-term EU-AU Research and
Innovation Partnership for Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture
Grant Agreement n°: 817663 Project duration: 48 months
Published by the LEAP4FNSSA Consortium Dissemination Level: Public
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 817663
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LEAP4FNSSA CONSORTIUM
The project consortium is composed of:
AUSTRIA Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU) BURKINA FASO Fonds National de la Recherche et de l'Innovation pour le Developpement (FONRID) CZECH REPUBLIC Ceska Zemedelska Univerzita V Praze (CULS) DENMARK Kobenhavns Universitet (UCPH) EGYPT Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MHESR)
Knowledge Economy Foundation (KEF) ETHIOPIA African Union – Union Africaine - The African Observatory for Science Technology and
Innovation (AOSTI) FINLAND Luonnonvarakeskus (LUKE)
Jyvaskylan Yliopisto (JYU) FRANCE Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement (CIRAD) – COORDINATOR
GERMANY Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE) Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt EV (DLR) Go Africa Katharina Kuss (GAKK) Universitaet Hohenheim (UHOH)
GHANA Council for Scientific and Industrial Research- Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (CSIR-GH)
GREECE Knowledge & Innovation Consultants - Symvouleftiki Monoprosopi Epe (KINNO) HUNGARY Szent Istvan University (SIU) ITALY Centro Internazionale di Alti Studi Agronomici Mediterranei (CIHEAM-IAMB) KENYA Ministry of Education Science and Technology (MEST)
Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) NIGERIA International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) - PORTUGAL Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT) SENEGAL Ministere de l’Enseignement Superieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation (MESRI-
DFRSDT) SOUTH AFRICA Agricultural Research Council (ARC)
Department of Science and Technology (DST) National Research Foundation (NRF)
SPAIN Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentacion OA MP (INIA) SWEDEN Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (SLU) THE NETHERLANDS
Stichting Wageningen Research (WR)
UGANDA Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture Limited (Forum) by Guarantee (RUFORUM) The Registered Trustees of the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
UNITED KINGDOM
Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) Natural Resources Institute-University of Greenwich (NRI)
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Disclaimer
This document reflects only the Author’s views and the European Union is not
responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
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DOCUMENT INFORMATION
Project number 817663 Acronym LEAP4FNSSA
Full title Support to the implementation of the Long-term EU-AU Research and Innovation
Partnership for Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture
Project URL www.leap4fnssa.eu
Document URL
EU Project Officer Soriani Cristina
Deliverable Number D4.6 Title 1st Annual report, including feedback and lesson learnt, from Europe-Africa Agora
Work Package Number WP4 Title Dissemination and Communication
Date of delivery Contractual M12 Actual M13
Status Version 1.0 Final
Final review 11/11/2019 Formatting by WP4 12/11/2019
Type of document
Prototype
report
demonstration
other
Dissemination level public
confidential
Authors (Partner) MHESR, CIHEAM-IAMB, with contributions from all project Partners
Responsible Authors
and Contributors
Name Tarek El Arabi
Norhan El Dallal Email
Partner MHESR Phone +202 27927368/9
Abstract
(for dissemination)
The report provides feedback on the launched EU-AU AGORA, an important component of the website.
The Agora has been designed to strengthen and structure the participation of civil society and web communities in the dialogue with research organizations, ministries and research councils, interacting with permanent LEAP4FNSSA domain experts (namely the Bureau of the AU-EU HLPD).
A brief description is presented on how AGORA was built, its structure and functionalities, analytics, the lessons learned and steps beyond.
Keywords Annual, activities, communication, dissemination, AGORA
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Index
Executive Summary .................................................................................................................................. 7
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 7
1.1 Purpose, context and scope of this deliverable ...................................................................7
1.2 Structure and content of this deliverable ............................................................................7
2 The Europe-Africa Agora (EAA) ...................................................................................................... 8
2.1 The Agora philosophy ..........................................................................................................8
2.2 Agora’s structure and functionalities ..................................................................................9
2.3 The mapping of web communities ................................................................................... 10
2.4 Day-to-day content curation ............................................................................................. 12
3 First year Agora analytics (July-October 2019) ............................................................................ 17
3.1 Discussion (comments to results and potentialities) ........................................................ 19
4 Conclusions and lessons learnt .................................................................................................... 21
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities ............................................................................................. 22
Index of Figures
Figure 1 – EU-AU Agora main components and functions ...................................................................... 9
Figure 2 – The Agora homepage ........................................................................................................... 13
Figure 3 – Agora: Flows ......................................................................................................................... 14
Figure 4 – Agora: Example of a flow ...................................................................................................... 15
Figure 5 – Agora: the search function ................................................................................................... 16
Figure 6 – EU-AU Agora : unique page views – July-November 2019 (Google Analytics) ..................... 17
Figure 7 - EU-AU Agora : total page views – July-November 2019 (Google Analytics) ......................... 18
Figure 8 - EU-AU Agora : average time on page – July-November 2019 (Google Analytics) ................ 18
Figure 9 – Twitter impressions trends from July to October 2019 ....................................................... 20
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Index of Tables
Table 1 - KPI for LEAP4FNSSA Agora (by the end of the Project) .......................................................... 18
Abbreviations
EAA Europe-Africa Agora
EU-AU Europe-Africa
FNSSA Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture
SEO Search Engine Optimisation
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Executive Summary The present document is a deliverable of the LEAP4FNSSA project, funded under the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (H2020), and presents
the description of the AU-EU Agora, integrated into the project’s website (D4.6).
LEAP4FNSSA has set-up a mechanism aimed at the promotion of an open dialogue among
society, research and institutions through a web community: the LEAP4FNNSA EU-AU
Agora (EAA).
The Agora is an important component of the LEAP4FNSSA website
(http://www.leapf4fnssa.eu) and it is administered and implemented by CIHEAM-IAMB.
The Agora has been designed to strengthen and structure the participation of civil society
and web communities in the dialogue with research organizations, ministries and research
councils, interacting with permanent LEAP4FNSSA domain experts (namely the Bureau of
the AU-EU HLPD).
Together with the web portal, Agora will contribute to the project’s objective of raising
awareness among researchers and innovation actors on research opportunities within the
H2020 framework.
1 Introduction
The LEAP4FNSSA Agora is a social hub supporting social dialogue for knowledge-sharing
initiatives at EU-AU level.
LEAP4FNSSA EU-AU Agora is an important component of the broader LEAP4FNSSA
project’s website, supported by the European Union with the aim of strengthening the Euro-
Africa dialogue and cooperation, research and innovation on FNSSA.
The Agora collects, shares and generates timely stories, articles, and media content (with
different degrees of specialisation and expressing different visions) on research and
innovation on the issues related to food, nutrition and sustainable agriculture in the EU-AU
region.
Moreover, thanks to the Agora, participation and collaboration among relevant stakeholders
is enabled and enforced.
1.1 Purpose, context and scope of this deliverable
The purpose of this document is to describe how AGORA was built, its structure and
functionalities, the statistic of the 1st year, the lessons learned and steps beyond.
1.2 Structure and content of this deliverable
The deliverable is structured as follows: an introduction, a description of the Agora strategy,
structure and functionalities, and the conclusions.
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2 The Europe-Africa Agora (EAA)
2.1 The Agora philosophy
Together with the “traditional” sections, the LEAP4FNSSA website will allow to feature an
advanced collaboration service, named “Agora”, which will act as a public open space
(addressed to civil society at large) inspired to the philosophy of the ancient Greek Agora, a
space devoted to debates, assemblies and markets.
This space has proved to be very successful in other projects like FP7 MedSpring
(www.medspring.eu) in ensuring, through consolidated used of social media, a live self-
sustained legacy active beyond the project, thanks to the very high number of followers
reached all along the project’s duration.
The idea of the AU-EU Agora is, with the use of social media, to involve as many people as
possible as ‘followers’ of LEAP4FNSSA during and after the end of the project. The AU-EU
Agora will consist of a virtual meeting place and market, where teamwork and cooperation
functionalities will be designed to mobilise and engage the wide civil society to discuss, share
best practices and innovative ideas, and provide inputs in relation to FNSSA cooperation in
Africa.
With Agora, the project website will raise first the interest of the civil society at large, enabling
to build a base of story-telling, practices, articles, posts about subjects that revolve around
the main themes of LEAP4FNSSA. It will also help to streamline best practices and
innovative ideas to FNSSA stakeholders including funders
The Agora will be administered and implemented by CIHEAM-IAMB (WP4 co-leader).
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The Agora has been designed to strengthen and structure the participation of civil society
and web communities in the dialogue with research organizations, ministries and research
councils, interacting with permanent LEAP4FNSSA domain experts (namely the Bureau of
the AU-EU HLPD).
This interaction aims to develop common paradigms for research and innovation within major
topics related to Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture.
2.2 Agora’s structure and functionalities
LEAP4FNSSA Agora system is completely based on Open Source software and open
technological standards, in which the main components are directly interconnected in respect
of the Service Oriented Architecture guidelines (SOA).
LEAP4FNSSA Agora is a virtual, internet-based forum, acting as a platform to stimulate the
participation and discussion of the civil society and stakeholders on Food and Nutrition
Security & Sustainable Agriculture. In order to engage the society, a digital Social Web
technology infrastructure will be established. LEAP4FNSSA Agora will be an additional tool
amplifying brokerage on research and innovation.
The Agora system empowers collaboration. Discussion around content will be strongly
encouraged: on the one hand, a commenting service will allow users to discuss each content
in the Human Hub (THH). Comments can be stand-alone or threaded, in order to allow
“conversations”. A collaboration mechanism that we propose in the Agora is through the
Pundit annotation service (http://thepund.it/), an open source cloud tool for directly annotating
web pages. This way users can insert specific comments directly on the text and to highlight
Figure 1 – EU-AU Agora main components and functions
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the most relevant parts. Annotations can be shared with users, that can also directly
comment and provide a feedback (like/dislike) on them.
Content presentation and commenting/annotation will not be the only functionalities provided
for collaboration. Advanced functionalities will be, in fact, available including:
Cloud Document Management service: Cloud-based filesystems can be defined and
associated to VFs. Here users, freely or with specific permissions, will be able to
upload and share documents with other users. The service will support the possibility
to manage the most common file formats of productivity applications. A versioning
service is also available to keep track of all the evolutions of a document. It will be
also possible to create and share a Wiki Page, which can be directly edited from a
web browser.
Questions/Polls: they introduced in a VF a service similar to what Yahoo Answers and
Quora offer. Users can post questions to other members/subscribers of the VF:
subsequent answers can be voted and the best ones can be highlighted. Polls can be
used to carry out surveys, where a question has a predefined selection of possible
answers.
Messages: this is a service for direct and private communication between users. It
allows them to exchange messages with single or multiple recipients.
The Agora will provide users with personalised services: in particular it will be possible for
them to “bookmark” content stored, to classify it through tags and to assemble them in
“virtual collections”.
All these services will be available for users through a Personalised Dashboard.
Since collaboration in Agora is focussed on content, it is paramount in the project to have a
sustainable and effective way to find valuable articles from websites and social media alike.
Therefore, while “content selection” can always be performed manually by the Agora
administrators, it will be experimented to reuse the Text and Data Mining strategies
envisioned in Task 3.2 not only to build the concepts and indicators database, but to
automatically find content of interest to be published in Agora.
2.3 The mapping of web communities
A large number of online communities have been operating for several years in the field of
Food and Nutrition security and Sustainable Agriculture: individual and collective blogs,
online magazines, vertical portals and forums. In addition to these, the social communities
are increasingly a flow of continuous communication able to convey, engage and convey
information in real time.
In the project’s first year, a continuous social media listening campaign was carried on,
together with the mapping of the web communities in the AU countries, which are more
active in the two project topics: Food Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture. Such
outcome will represent a valuable knowledge base for all WP4 activities. The results of this
preliminary activity were collected and included in the Communication and Dissemination
Plan (CDP).
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Starting from the analysis of the connections and interactions, the websites, blogs and main
social accounts (Twitter and Facebook) within the theme of interest a mapping of online
communities has been carried out according to some specific criteria. They targeted: the
openness level (measured considering the number of potential users); collaboration levels
(considering users dynamism and contributions-open discussions on the theme). The
evaluation will be based on a qualitative scoring methodology - low, medium, high.
After a preliminary screening, the selected communities will be sifted according to a further
set of parameters: geographical localization (geographical scope of posts and users); type of
contents (scientific/generalist).
For each web community, the following data were collected:
Name
Country
Language
Presence of website/blog (URL)
Presence of Twitter account
No. of Twitter followers
Presence of FB page/group
No. of FB fans
Audience by geographical origin (Africa-EU/International).
An initial cluster of 80 online communities (among them 61 having an AU-EU audience) has
been selected (up to 21 February 2019) according to the aforementioned parameters (see
ANNEX 1).
This mapping activity will be constantly updated to include the new experiences that existing
contacts open up.
As a result of the mapping activities, a mechanism will be put in place allowing channelling
and gathering contents and trends to be shared in LEAP4FNSSA website for feeding
discussion on a daily basis.
Key words are highlighted and analysed as well as hashtags mostly used by the
communities identified by the mapping. The latest are periodically monitored in order to
identify the most active accounts, the most followed ones therefore allowing the identification
of further networks linked to them.
The website and the Agora, fed by different sourced content, will contribute to shift the initial
users’ attention towards a higher level of participation that implies knowledge generation and
good practice sharing: attention will turn into interest and “user long-term retention”.
The progressive participation and interaction with these existing social and web communities
will be the starting point of the Agora activities: getting in touch in order to create a
relationship of mutual trust with these actors will allow LEAP4FNSSA Agora to be able to
assume a networking and organization recognized within communities around the themes of
Food and Nutrition Security & Sustainable Agriculture.
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In a further step, researchers, students, policy makers, entrepreneurs, members of NGOs,
associations, web communities will be contacted via web and joined the Agora community.
Through social communication tools that are present on our site, we will address categories
such as women and young people through specific messages. In particular in the field of
agriculture there is a huge gender gap, despite many activities being in the hands of women;
the same applies to young people, who have no incentive to undertake professions in this
area. Therefore, we will focus on these categories through the choice of keywords and
messages that attract them. Agora will amplify opportunities (like conferences, calls for
proposals, training and funding opportunities) particularly targeting to young
researchers/entrepreneurs, both men and women.
The Agora will thus function as a hub - a social hub - able to put in contact and let interact
both partners and actors from the civil society (companies, NGOs, researchers, farmers).
2.4 Day-to-day content curation
After the identification of the major players, the next phase of activities was centered around
the production and reproduction of contents. Through day-to-day content curation, we filtered
news, videos, articles and other material to be published in our social media channels.
The quality of the content reproduced through EAA is expecting to attract growing group of
users. The community of EAA is represented by 48 “followers” on Facebook, 111 “followers”
on Twitter (last update: 31/10/2019 – Instagram and YouTube will be implemented the next
year). These two social media channels attract different users and are not totally overlapping.
The day-to-day content update activity is envisaged for the entire period of the
LEAP4FNSSA project. However, an important shift in focus is expected: from the
reproduction of content coming from other sources to the production of content coming from
within the project. In parallel, the project staff produced video-interviews to significant
stakeholders, articles, info-graphics, and other materials on the activities of the project.
To this end, the collaboration of the project partners is essential not only for the activities of
the project but also for their own institutional visibility. The original material produced within
the project has more outreach in the web community.
Among its features there will be monitoring, through his social appendices, the information
flows coming from social networks concerning Food and Nutrition Security & Sustainable
Agriculture.
It will work as an amplifier of its own or external initiatives through the publication of ad-hoc
content - before, during or after their development (articles, infographics, moments, live-
tweeting).
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Figure 2 – The Agora homepage
Starting from the analysis of the sources previously selected through the phases of social media and websites / blog listening, a first cluster of sources related to the topics concerning the project, i.e. sustainable agriculture, food and nutrition security, was set up.
Once the aforementioned content feeds have been retrieved, six aggregated information flows (“Flows”) have been created, which act as the first screening tool for the topics listed above. A first series of queries have been set for each communication flow, using keywords, hashtags and entities semantically related to the project's topics. In addition to this, the search possibilities have been set, through a faceted system, within the created Flows.
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Figure 3 – Agora: Flows
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Figure 4 – Agora: Example of a flow
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Figure 5 – Agora: the search function
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A human moderation system has been set up to monitor the accuracy of the selected contents through the automatic search that the Flows perform every six hours between the appropriately selected sources.
The graphic and textual part of the Agora interface was also customized, testing its usability and responsiveness.
From the engagement point of view, a registration system has been set up to access the interactive features (question, groups, polls, etc.) that will be available soon.
3 First year Agora analytics (July-October 2019) Close monitoring based on analytical tools – such as Google Analytics – and Search Engine
Optimisation (SEO) is used to improve the overall website’s efficiency. Appropriate web
analytics softwares are installed on the project website to enable closer inspection of web
traffic, including investigating any observed changes in traffic surrounding key project events,
as well as basic information about visitors and the use they make of the site to gather
valuable feedback for planning future ones.
Similar tools are available also for monitoring the activities on social media channels. A close
and constant monitoring provide an opportunity to identify particular gaps or overlaps in the
existing, and adjust the strategic direction accordingly during the project itself.
Within LEAP4FNSSA, a number of quantifiable Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are set-up
to monitor the quality of the activities, and to evaluate the level of engagement as well as the
overall impact of the CD Plan.
These indicators, which represent the minimum expected outreach for the EEA, are
presented in the table below.
it is worth to be mentioned that it is not possible to differentiate the geo-location of access
between Agora and the Website.
In general terms, it is visible how the number of visitors to the Agora, is growing since July
until now. Despite the number of visited pages decrease, the average time spent on each
visit tends to increase. It is worth to be mentioned that, unlike the website, the trends in
Agora are more linked and influenced by social media activities
.
Figure 6 – EU-AU Agora : unique page views – July-November 2019 (Google Analytics)
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Figure 7 - EU-AU Agora : total page views – July-November 2019 (Google Analytics)
Figure 8 - EU-AU Agora : average time on page – July-November 2019 (Google Analytics)
Table 1 - KPI for LEAP4FNSSA Agora (by the end of the Project)
CDE tools Key Performance Indicator Source(s) Current Status
Agora: dissemination/networking success
15.000 unique visitors 700 registered users by the end of the project 30.000 sessions
Google Analytics
59 unique visitors until November 2019
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3.1 Discussion (comments to results and potentialities)
In the starting phase, it was essential to take roots in the social media communities,
especially Twitter, to analyze and define a first clusters of sources useful to feed Agora's
flows.
A parallel effort was done to engage actors and networks in order to bring their attention on
our social hub and showing them the advantages of our tools.
Six Agora's flows were implemented (“Food security”, “Nutrition security”, “Sustainable
agriculture”) retrieving contents from two kind of sources (web sites and blogs, Twitter)
according to hashtag and logical operators specifically chosen.
In conclusion: the growth of unique visitors is proportional to Twitter impressions, confirming
our strategy to drain visitors and attentions from social media timelines to our Agora pages.
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Figure 9 – Twitter impressions trends from July to October 2019
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4 Conclusions and lessons learnt As anticipated in D 4.1, the project website and the LEAP4FNSSA Agora have been created
at the early stage of the project. Both the website and the EU-AU Agora are conceived to
increase collaboration between project partners and external stakeholders, and to raise the
project impact. Both will be continuously updated and improved, in terms of content and
functionalities.
Thanks to the lessons learnt in the previous utilization of the Agora, the importance of the
trust level created between the users and the platform becomes the main driver in making
the user proactively involved in the dissemination of interesting information, both original and
collected from other sources, for all communities.
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
The following web-communities were selected according to the methodology described at paragraph 4.3.1. (Updated to 21/02/2019)
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
African farming
Africa Supporting African farmers (English)
https://www.africanfarming.com
https://twitter.com/African_Farming/
1,860 https://www.facebook.com/Africanfarming/
109,726 Africa/EU
Farm Radio International
Ottawa Working w/ 750+ radio partners in 40 African countries, we reach & serve tens of millions of small-scale farmers (English)
https://farmradio.org https://twitter.com/farmradio
10,000 https://www.facebook.com/farmradio/
8,430 Africa/EU
Habiba Community
Egypt Habiba Community, which includes our beach lodge, communal organic farm and our learning center is dedicated to building a strong, healthy future for the entire South Sinai Community. (English)
https://www.habibacommunity.com/
https://twitter.com/habibacommunity/
2,060 https://www.facebook.com/farmradio/
12,359 Africa/EU
AGYP France L’AGYP est un point de rencontres, un hub de réalisations entre les jeunesses africaines, les entrepreneurs, la diaspora, et les réseaux éducation/formation (French/English)
https://www.agyp.co/ https://twitter.com/AGYP_co
942 https://www.facebook.com/AGYP.co/
6,548 Africa/EU
FAO e-Agriculture
Global A global initiative to enhance sustainable agricultural development & food security by improving the use of information and communication technologies. (English)
http://www.fao.org/e-agriculture/
https://twitter.com/FAOeagriculture
48,200
Africa/EU
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
Schaduf Egypt Innovative urban farming system providing low income individuals with the opportunity to own rooftop farms that produce healthy and sustainable crops. (English)
http://www.schaduf.com/ https://twitter.com/Schaduf
474 http://www.facebook.com/schaduf/
823 Africa/EU
SEKEM Group
Egypt Renowned social business and producer of organic products. It has also been establishing numerous other social and cultural initiatives since 1977. (English)
http://www.sekem.com/ https://twitter.com/sekemgroup
1,191 https://www.facebook.com/sekemgroup/
17,588 Africa/EU
Prince Papa Kenya Co-founder/Director usawaplanet /Co-founder 350_kenya /Community Developer / Movement builder / deCOALonize Africa (English)
https://u-sawa.org/ https://twitter.com/princepapa1
57,200
Africa/EU
CAAST-Net Plus
Europe-Africa
CAAST-Net Plus is a network of 26 European and African partners collaborating to support research and innovation partnerships addressing global challenges. (English)
https://caast-net-plus.org/ https://twitter.com/CAAST_Net_Plus
935 https://www.facebook.com/caastnetplus/
213 Africa/EU
CGIAR France CGIAR is the largest global agricultural innovation network. World-class science for SDGs and a world free of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation (English)
https://www.cgiar.org/ https://twitter.com/CGIAR 85,600 https://www.facebook.com/CGIAR-270424969671619/
23,004 International
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
CTA Netherlands
CTA is at the forefront of the fight against poverty and for sustainable food security in the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States.(English)
https://www.cta.int/ https://twitter.com/CTAflash/
27,200 https://www.facebook.com/CTApage
173,011 International
ICARDA Lebanon ICARDA works with countries in the world's dry areas to promote sustainable agriculture, raise farmer incomes, and strengthen food security. (English)
http://www.icarda.org https://twitter.com/ICARDA/
17,300 https://www.facebook.com/icarda/
18,990 International
Sci.Dev.net Global Bringing science and global dev together through news and analysis. (English)
https://www.scidev.net/global/
https://twitter.com/SciDevNet/
25,200 https://www.facebook.com/scidevnet/
72,242 International
IFAD Global International Fund for Agricultural Development. We invest in rural people. (English)
https://www.ifad.org/en/ https://twitter.com/IFAD/ 76,800 https://www.facebook.com/IFAD/
253,210 International
ACET Ghana African Center for Economic Transformation: A Pan-African think-and-do-tank driving economic transformation (English)
http://acetforafrica.org/ https://twitter.com/AcetforAfrica/
16,400 https://www.facebook.com/acetforafrica/
22,086 Africa-EU
Alfred Adjabeng
Ghana Founder of @_SchoolFarms (English)
http://www.alfredadjabeng.com/
https://twitter.com/AlfredAdjabeng/
1,497
Africa-EU
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
Green Africa Youth
Ghana Youth-Led NGO dedicated to building capacity to protect the natural environment and support sustainable rural development through youth empowerment. (English)
https://greenafricayouth.com
https://twitter.com/gayoghana/
1,059 https://www.facebook.com/gayogh/
1,370 Africa-EU
MaMo Panel Senegal The Malabo Montpellier Panel seeks to provide evidence and dialogue for better outcomes in agriculture, nutrition and food security in Africa (English)
https://www.mamopanel.org/
https://twitter.com/MamoPanel
28,000 https://www.facebook.com/MaMoPanel/
6,083 Africa-EU
SciDev.Net Afrique
Africa Rapprocher la science et le développement. (French)
https://www.scidev.net/afrique-sub-saharienne/
https://twitter.com/scidevafrique/
1,905 https://www.facebook.com/scidev.afrique/
127,083 Africa-EU
FAO West Africa
West Africa
Latest news and information from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO in West Africa (English)
http://www.fao.org/emergencies/regions/western-africa/en/
https://twitter.com/FAOWestAfrica
3,426
West Africa
Africa Rice Center
Côte d'Ivoire
Rice science at the service of Africa (English /French)
http://www.africarice.org/ https://twitter.com/africarice
4,343 https://www.facebook.com/AfricaRiceCenter/
8,875 Africa-EU
IFPRI USA The International Food Policy Research Institute seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty (English)
http://www.ifpri.org/ https://twitter.com/IFPRI/ 85,700 https://www.facebook.com/ifpri.org/
182,014 International
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
GFAR Italy GFAR is the world’s agricultural research for development community working together to transform and strengthen agri-food research and innovation systems (English)
https://www.gfar.net/ https://twitter.com/GFARforum/
19,800 https://www.facebook.com/GlobalForumonAgriculturalResearch/
17,773 International
FarmingAfrica Africa Journo, speaker, opinion maker. My view: Independent information empowers smallholder farmers and ends hunger (English / Dutch)
http://farmingafrica.net/ https://twitter.com/Farming_Africa/
3,491 https://www.facebook.com/FarmingAfrica.net/
491 Africa-EU
Green Africa Directory
South Africa
Africa's online sustainability network | A central green hub to connect & promote sustainability initiatives across Africa
http://www.greenafricadirectory.org/
https://twitter.com/GreenAfricaDir/
9,416 https://www.facebook.com/GreenAfricaDirectory/
9,223 Africa-EU
Agropreneur Africa
Nigeria Sharing info. to inspire the next generation of agriculturists
http://blog.agropreneur.ng/
https://twitter.com/AgPAfrica/
9,612 https://www.facebook.com/AgPAfrica/
5,318 Africa-EU
UN CSF Italy The Committee on World Food security of FAO IFAD WFP UN & multiple stakeholders, working to achieveZero Hunger Nutrition for all (English)
http://www.fao.org/cfs/ https://twitter.com/UN_CFS/
7,333 https://www.facebook.com/UNCFS/
2,696 International
Sahel Green Foods
Nigeria Promote sound AgroForestry Policy, promote favourable
https://sahelfoods.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/sahel_foods/
875 https://www.facebook.com/sahelfoods/
893 Africa-EU
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
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followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
climate to fighting famine hunger, malnutrition and poverty (English)
farmbiz Africa Kenya Africa's No.1 agribusiness news site transforming the continent's farmers into rich agripreneurs through high yielding techniques and market survey articles (English)
http://www.farmbizafrica.com/
https://twitter.com/FarmbizAfrica/
23,200 https://www.facebook.com/Farmbiz-Africa-185891944850239/
27,011 Africa-EU
ECPA Europe Securing food supply with crop protection solutions
http://www.ecpa.eu/ https://twitter.com/cropprotection
9,814 https://www.facebook.com/cropprotection/
91,608 Africa-EU
Agber Kwaghdoo Sussa
Nigeria Smart,intelligent, BForestry,climate advocate, waste management,climate smart Farmer. (English)
https://twitter.com/SussanAgber/
546
Africa-EU
Farming First Global Farming First is a global coalition calling on world leaders to increase agricultural output in a sustainable and socially responsible manner. (English)
https://farmingfirst.org/ https://twitter.com/farmingfirst/
54,100
International
AgribusinessExpo
Nigeria The gathering of Agro-Allied Key Players & Equipment Manufacturers. Theme: The New Agricultural Agenda for Economic Growth and Food Security
https://www.agricshow.com/
https://twitter.com/AgribusinessXpo/
1,295
Africa-EU
John Agboola O
Nigeria A Farmer, Agricultural Economist and
https://agrindusnetwork.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/johnagboolao1/
2,814
Africa-EU
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
Extensionist, Value Chain Catalyst ,Team lead Agrindusnetwork, AAQ Trailblazer AGCOcorp, #AgTwitterCup2018 Co-founder. (English)
AGCO Global High–tech solutions for farmers feeding the world. Welcome Challenger, Fendt, GSI, Massey Ferguson and Valtra friends and fans. (English)
https://blog.agcocorp.com/
https://twitter.com/AGCOcorp
39,900 https://www.facebook.com/AGCOcorp/
338,843 International
AgrindusNetwork
Nigeria Working with Smallholder farmers and Youth inAg in Nigeria, Lover of Rural Development, (English)
https://twitter.com/Agrindusnetwork/
365 https://www.facebook.com/groups/agrindusnetwork/
71 Africa-EU
AgribusinessExpo
Egypt Agricultural cooperative in Giza (English / Arabic)
http://www.agriegypt.com/
Africa-EU
BCFN Foundation
Italy Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition. (English)
https://www.barillacfn.com/en/
https://twitter.com/BarillaCFN/
9,626 https://www.facebook.com/FondazioneBCFN/
37,637 International
Seeds&Chips Italy The Global Food Innovation Summit (English /italian)
https://seedsandchips.com//
https://twitter.com/SEEDSandCHIPS/
16,200 https://www.facebook.com/seedsandchips/
9,254 International
Farmer Olawale J. A
Nigeria For Farm Establishment & training, Biz Plan, crops, poultry and Catfish (English)
https://twitter.com/wale_agro
382
Africa-EU
YPARD Global Network of Young Professionals for Agricultural Development! Empowering Youth, Worldwide (English)
https://ypard.net/ https://twitter.com/YPARD
24,900 https://www.facebook.com/YPARD/
13,642 International
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
YPARD Africa Africa A network of young professionals in agriculture devoted to agricultural development in Africa. Promote agriculture, inspire leadership, develop capacity. (English)
https://africa.ypard.net/ https://twitter.com/YpardAfrica/
1,941
Africa-EU
YPARD Nigeria
Nigeria YPARD is a dynamic youth network of Young Professionals for Agricultural Development. This is the Nigeria Chapter. (English)
https://ypard.net/ https://twitter.com/YPARDNigeria
2,411
Africa-EU
IITA Youth Agripreneurs
Africa IYA is an agribusiness youth organisation working with others to address Africa's youth unemployment challenges and sustain their livelihood. (English)
https://youthagripreneurs.org/
https://twitter.com/IITAYOUTHAGRIP
7,608 https://www.facebook.com/IitaYouthAgripreneurs/
12,408 Africa-EU
Kalu Samuel Anya
Nigeria Freelance Digital Marketing/ Agribusiness Consultant| | |Agric blogger| | Certified SM Reporter| |CEO agritechnovate (English)
https://kalusam.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/KalusamAnya
1,656
Africa-EU
Olawale OJO Nigeria Farmer || Agribusiness Professional || Ag4Transformation Communicator || & AgTech Enthusiast (English)
https://olawaleojo.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/lawaleojo
3,667
Africa-EU
The GreenRise Hub
Nigeria We inspire & empower food, agriculture & agtech entrepreneurs and
https://thegreenrisehub.com/
https://twitter.com/thegreenrisehub
87 https://www.facebook.com/GoGreenandStayCool/
869 Africa-EU
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
startups in Nigeria to succeed (English)
Agribusiness TV
Burkina Faso
La 1ère Web TV en Afrique consacrée aux innovations & succès des #jeunes dans l’agriculture | The first youth in agribusiness Web TV in Africa (French / English)
http://agribusinesstv.info/fr/
https://twitter.com/AgribusinessTV
8,937 https://www.facebook.com/AgribusinessTV
178,653 Africa-EU
AAIN Africa African Agribusiness Incubators Network (Official). Incubating Incubators for Job & Wealth Creation (English)
http://www.africaain.org/ https://twitter.com/AAINOnline
3,280 https://www.facebook.com/AAINOnline/
427 Africa-EU
Paul Atsu Ghana CEO of incubationTV| Youth Agribusiness Development&communication Consultant l Social Media strategist (English)
https://agbemenyakossipaulatsu.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/paulatsu2323
643
Africa-EU
blueMoon Ethiopia
Ethiopia Ethiopia's first youth focused Agribusiness Startup Incubator. We believe in exceptional. (English)
http://www.bluemoonethiopia.com/
https://twitter.com/blueMoonEth
6,701 https://www.facebook.com/blueMoonEthiopia/
9,182 Africa-EU
Bukar Usman Nigeria I’m the founder of Sril Group Ltd, an NGO that advocate to “INVEST IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE as the solution to fight Global Hunger, Malnutrition & Poverty” (English)
https://bukarusman.me https://twitter.com/DrBAUsman
2,309
Africa-EU
AgroNigeria Nigeria Nigeria's Leading #AgricCommunications Brand with presence
https://www.agronigeria.com.ng/
https://twitter.com/agronigeria
12,600 https://www.facebook.com/agronigeria
92,258 Africa-EU
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
across the entire #MediaValueSegments - Print, Virtual and Electronic. (English)
Farmingportal / Agri News Net
South Africa
Farmingportal Africa only commercial webportal for farming.15 years of Independent reporting. We lead by example positive news in farming Agri News Net. (English)
http://www.farmingportal.co.za/
https://twitter.com/farmingportal
2,431 https://www.facebook.com/farmingportal/
1,007 Africa-EU
AUDA-NEPAD CAADP
South Africa
CAADP is in the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD, the framework for agricultural transformation, food security & nutrition. (English)
http://nepad.org/ https://twitter.com/NPCACAADP
3,989
Africa-EU
AUDA-NEPAD
South Africa
The African Union Development Agency (English)
http://nepad.org/ https://twitter.com/nepad_agency
46,400 https://www.facebook.com/nepad.page
9,708 Africa-EU
Limpopo Agriculture
South Africa
'n Dinamiese landbou-organisasie bestaande uit positiewe mense wat daartoe in staat is om alle uitdagings en geleenthede met ywer aan te pak. (English / Afrikaans)
https://limpopoagriculture.co.za/
https://twitter.com/agri_limpopo
2,166 https://www.facebook.com/agrilimpopo/
2,373 Africa-EU
Nawsheen Hosenally
Burkina Faso
Mauritian/Burkinabè | Co-Founder AgribusinessTV | Managing Director AgribizShop | Formerly CTAflash | Award-winning Blogger | 2017 Mandela
http://nawsheen.com/ https://twitter.com/nawsheenh
5,842
Africa-EU
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
Washington Fellow (English)
Inoussa Maïga
Burkina Faso
Founder of AgribusinessTV, first youth in agribusiness webTV in #Africa || Fondateur de la 1ere #webTV sur l'#entrepreneuriat agricole des jeunes (English / French)
https://twitter.com/MaigaInou
2,950
Africa-EU
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
Esoko Ghana + Malawi + Burkina Faso + Tanzania
Powering organizations that service hard-to-reach communities & farmers. Web & mobile-based tools & value added services. (English)
https://twitter.com/Esoko 2,591 https://www.facebook.co
m/EsokoNews/
1,968 Africa-EU
Switch-Africa Green
Africa The largest #EU Programme promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production SCP in #Africa : 34 projects in 6 countries (English)
https://www.switchafricagreen.org/index.php?lang=en
https://twitter.com/switchafrica
875 https://www.facebook.com/SWITCHAfricaGreen
1,015 Africa-EU
FAO Family Farming
Global Family Farming Knowledge Platform gathers digitized quality information on family farming from all over the world. (English)
http://www.fao.org/family-farming/en/
https://twitter.com/FAOFFKP
5,926
International
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
Farm Africa Eastern Africa and London
Farm Africa helps farmers escape poverty by growing more, selling more and selling for more, while protecting the environment for years to come. (English)
https://www.farmafrica.org/
https://twitter.com/FarmAfrica
37,600 https://www.facebook.com/FarmAfrica
15,427 Africa-EU
NOAN Nigeria NOAN is a NGO established to serve as an umbrella body for all stakeholders involved in organic agriculture in Nigeria. (English)
http://noannigeria.net/ https://twitter.com/NOANNigeria
541 https://www.facebook.com/noanigeria/
1,651 Africa-EU
Lagos Food Security
Nigeria The summit is designed to be a veritable forum for the State to institutionalize a Food Security framework. (English)
https://twitter.com/FoodSecureLagos
343 https://www.facebook.com/FoodSecureLagos/
253 Africa-EU
Food Climate Research Network
UK The FCRN provides impartial information on ethical, healthy and sustainable food systems. (English)
https://www.fcrn.org.uk/ https://twitter.com/FCRNetwork
7,244 https://www.facebook.com/fcrnetwork/
938 International
Foodmonitor.org
Germany Food Monitor is an early warning system that tracks global food price and supply risks that could impact food security. (English)
http://www.foodmonitor.org/
https://twitter.com/_foodmonitor
748 https://www.facebook.com/foodmonitortrackingrisk
16 International
ECPA Europe Securing food supply with crop protection solutions (English)
http://www.ecpa.eu/ https://twitter.com/cropprotection
9,815 https://www.facebook.com/cropprotection/
91,609 Africa-EU
CORAF Senegal CORAF works for more than 400 million people in
http://www.coraf.org/en/ https://twitter.com/CORAFNews
1,699 https://www.facebook.com/coraf.org/
10,443 Africa-EU
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
23 countries in West and Central Africa to overcome food and nutrition insecurity through cutting-edge research. (English)
AFAAS Africa Uganda African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services AFAAS is the umbrella organization for agricultural advisory services in Africa. (English)
https://www.afaas-africa.org/
https://twitter.com/afaasinfo
1,320 https://www.facebook.com/afaasafrica/
3,305 Africa-EU
CCARDESA South Africa
Center for the Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development in Southern Africa (English)
http://www.ccardesa.org/ https://twitter.com/ccardesaa
357 https://www.facebook.com/ccardesa/
1,292 Africa-EU
LEAP Agri Europe LEAP Agri H2020 cofund project: EU-Africa Research & Innovation partnership on food & nutrition security & sustainable agriculture (English)
http://www.leap-agri.com/ https://twitter.com/LEAP_Agri/
213 https://www.facebook.com/Leap-Agri-1427257780906869/
361 Africa-EU
Innocent Chamisa
Italy A young international development expert, with a background in Agriculture, Rural Development Natural Resource Management and Law (English)
https://namati.org/network/member/InnoChammy/
https://twitter.com/innochammy/
909
International
AfricaSeeds Côte d'Ivoire
The agency mandated by the African Union to implement its Seeds Programme (ASBP) in
https://www.africa-seeds.org/en/
https://twitter.com/AfricaSeeds
231 https://www.facebook.com/AfricaSeedsAU
53 Africa-EU
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
the framework of CAADP. For a seed-secure Africa. (English)
FAO in Africa Ghana News and information from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Office for Africa UNFAO in support of SDGs. (English)
http://www.fao.org/africa https://twitter.com/FAOAfrica
19,400
Africa-EU
PARI Zef Germany Program Accompanying Research in Agricultural Innovation Food Security & Agriculture Policy in Africa & India (English)
https://research4agrinnovation.org/
https://twitter.com/PARI_ZEF
1,814 https://www.facebook.com/pari.zef/
131 Africa-EU
Food Tank Global A global community pushing for food system change (English)
https://foodtank.com/ https://twitter.com/foodtank
209,000 https://www.facebook.com/TheFoodTank/
318,994 International
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
Food Security ET NL
Ethiopia This platform is a collection of the experiences from Dutch supported Food Security and Agricultural Growth projects in Ethiopia. (English)
http://www.foodsecurityethiopia.nl/
https://twitter.com/fsenl 339 https://www.facebook.com/fsenl/
1,715 Africa-EU
Far Dwuma Nkodo
Ghana Securing Sustainable Fisheries Is Important for Ghana's Food Security. (English)
https://ejfoundation.org/what-we-do/oceans/ghana
https://twitter.com/FarDwumaNkodo
68 https://www.facebook.com/FarDwumaNkodo/
195 Africa-EU
ANNEX 1 – Mapping of web communities
Name Country Description /(language) Website/blog Twitter Twitter
followers FB page/group FB fans
AU-EU / Internati
onal
Emmanuel Okalany
Uganda Development and Partnerships at ruforumsec. Love agriculture research and higher education. (English)
http://ruforum.org/ https://twitter.com/EOkalany
252
Africa-EU